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SPORT IN EUROPE 



PALACE OF MAFRA 



Rabbits. 



In rabbit-shooting, dogs are always used, even in the royal parks, 

 not only at Mafra and Villa Viqosa, but at Oueluz, Alfeite and 

 Ajuda, where rabbits are very plentiful. This sport is very amusing, 

 as the pointers run the rabbits so close, often even 

 snapping them, that it is very difficult to shoot them 

 without wounding the dogs. The marvellous quickness of His 

 Majesty the King in these shots is proverbial. 



The podengos of Alemtejo are so well trained that, on approaching 

 a wood, only the one to which the owner makes a sign will enter ; 



